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Message no. 1
From: Richard Gaywood r.gaywood@**********.com
Subject: Games in bits of the world [was Re: Southeastern VA regional questions]
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:11:42 -0000
OK, since everyone's asking about games in bits of the world that I have
only the fuzziest grasp of:
Does anyone know any games in the Cardiff, Wales area?

In fact, let's be less optimistic here: Does anyone on this list even live
in Wales? Does anyone know any Welsh people? Can anyone find Wales on a map?
;o)

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Message no. 2
From: Rat winterhawk@*********.net
Subject: Games in bits of the world [was Re: Southeastern VA regional questions]
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:42:42 -0800
> From: "Richard Gaywood" <r.gaywood@**********.com>

>
> OK, since everyone's asking about games in bits of the world that I have
> only the fuzziest grasp of:
> Does anyone know any games in the Cardiff, Wales area?
>
> In fact, let's be less optimistic here: Does anyone on this list even live
> in Wales? Does anyone know any Welsh people? Can anyone find Wales on a map?
> ;o)
>

Hey, I've *been* to Wales! I can even find Aberystwyth and
Ystumtuen on a map! I can even *pronounce* them!

No games that I know of, though. Just lots of beautiful
countryside, sheep, words with lotsa L's in 'em, and curmudgeonly
Vespa-riding physics professors.

Oh, and Safeway. Surprised the hell out of me. Never expected
to see a full-service American supermarket out in East Nowhere,
Cymru. :)

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Message no. 3
From: Richard Gaywood r.gaywood@**********.com
Subject: Games in bits of the world [was Re: Southeastern VA regional questions]
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:21:22 -0000
Rat wrote:
> Hey, I've *been* to Wales! I can even find Aberystwyth and
> Ystumtuen on a map! I can even *pronounce* them!

Hey, cool! My girlfriend went to Uni in Aber, so I spent a lot of time there
over the last three years. As for the other place, not really sure I could
pronounce it either :o)

Here's a fun game: would anyone else on this board (who doesn't already
know) like to guess how you pronounce Aberystwyth?

> No games that I know of, though. Just lots of beautiful
> countryside, sheep, words with lotsa L's in 'em, and curmudgeonly
> Vespa-riding physics professors.

Oh yes, I'd second that. Uhh, except about the professor. So how come you
spent time in Aber then?

> Oh, and Safeway. Surprised the hell out of me. Never expected
> to see a full-service American supermarket out in East Nowhere,
> Cymru. :)

He he he! I've actually *shopped* there!
<reels in realisation that world really is small>

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Message no. 4
From: Daniel Laenker dmlaenker@*****.com
Subject: Games in bits of the world [was Re: Southeastern VA regional questions]
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:45:47 -0800 (PST)
--- Richard Gaywood <r.gaywood@**********.com> wrote:
> Rat wrote:
> > Hey, I've *been* to Wales! I can even find
> Aberystwyth and
> > Ystumtuen on a map! I can even *pronounce* them!
>
> Hey, cool! My girlfriend went to Uni in Aber, so I
> spent a lot of time there
> over the last three years. As for the other place,
> not really sure I could
> pronounce it either :o)
>
> Here's a fun game: would anyone else on this board
> (who doesn't already
> know) like to guess how you pronounce Aberystwyth?

Erm... Abercrombie and Fitch?

> > No games that I know of, though. Just lots of
> beautiful
> > countryside, sheep, words with lotsa L's in 'em,
> and curmudgeonly
> > Vespa-riding physics professors.

I'm assuming a Vespa is native to Wales, isn't it?

> Oh yes, I'd second that. Uhh, except about the
> professor. So how come you
> spent time in Aber then?
>
> > Oh, and Safeway. Surprised the hell out of me.
> Never expected
> > to see a full-service American supermarket out in
> East Nowhere,
> > Cymru. :)
>
> He he he! I've actually *shopped* there!
> <reels in realisation that world really is small>

Does it have the same hellish muzak as in
American supermarkets?

For that matter, I can somehow easily imagine a
British supermarket called Stuffer Shack....

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Message no. 5
From: Rat winterhawk@*********.net
Subject: Games in bits of the world [was Re: Southeastern VA regional questions]
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:48:17 -0800
Richard Gaywood r.gaywood@**********.com

> Rat wrote:
> > Hey, I've *been* to Wales! I can even find Aberystwyth and
> > Ystumtuen on a map! I can even *pronounce* them!
>
> Hey, cool! My girlfriend went to Uni in Aber, so I spent a lot of time there
> over the last three years. As for the other place, not really sure I could
> pronounce it either :o)
>

It took me awhile to learn...


> > No games that I know of, though. Just lots of beautiful
> > countryside, sheep, words with lotsa L's in 'em, and curmudgeonly
> > Vespa-riding physics professors.
>
> Oh yes, I'd second that. Uhh, except about the professor. So how come you
> spent time in Aber then?
>

Well, okay, I lied. There were only *two* professors, and only
one of 'em rode a Vespa. We were there to meet up with some folks
we'd met on a 'net motorcycling newsgroup.

And to keep this at least *somewhat* on topic, we saw very few game
stores there (none in Wales, one in London, and I don't think
any others) and no Shadowrun stuff at all. Where do you UKers
buy your SR stuff, anyway?


> > Oh, and Safeway. Surprised the hell out of me. Never expected
> > to see a full-service American supermarket out in East Nowhere,
> > Cymru. :)
>
> He he he! I've actually *shopped* there!
> <reels in realisation that world really is small>


<joins in reeling> Yeah, no kidding! You haven't by chance been
to the Druid Inn or the Cross Foxes Pub, have ya?

--Rat

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Message no. 6
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: Games in bits of the world [was Re: Southeastern VA regional questions]
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:43:45 +0200
According to Daniel Laenker, at 13:45 on 29 Mar 00, the word on the street
was...

> > > Vespa-riding physics professors.
>
> I'm assuming a Vespa is native to Wales, isn't it?

Vespa is an Italian manufacturer of motor scooters, and has been since at
least the 1950s. You could say they're the Dodge Scoots of the real world,
except they don't look as silly. (Ever sonce buying the RBB, I have
wondered how you actually sit on a Dodge Scoot...)

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Message no. 7
From: Richard Gaywood r.gaywood@**********.com
Subject: Games in bits of the world [was Re: Southeastern VA regionalquestions]
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:48:06 -0000
Wavy Davy wrote:
I can recommend 'Travelling Man' at the Corn Exchange in Leeds,
'Spirit Games' in Burton-on-Trent, and the bizarely titled
'Not Just Stamps' in High Wycombe. There all fairy small independant
game stores, although Travelling Man is a small chain, I believe.
I have bought many up-to-date SR books from all of them and they
have lots of out of print 1st and 2nd Edition. I just got 'Dark Angel'
for £5 :) And the 'Cannon Companion' arrived on the Morning of the
28th of March in Leeds :)

Yeah. I go to the Trading Post in Cardiff, which appears to haven't any SR
stock in since the release of SR3. I'm going to have to look into
internet/postal orders. There's always amazon.co.uk...

I don't know for sure, but I'd be willing to believe this is the only gaming
shop in Wales, barring a few GWs. There might be a few more, but I bet
there's not more than half-a-dozen in total.

BTW, Gameskeeper in Oxford is a good shop with some second-hand stuff (got
Denver for £8), but the staff are a bit snooty...

> <joins in reeling> Yeah, no kidding! You haven't by chance been
> to the Druid Inn or the Cross Foxes Pub, have ya?

<third party joins in with reeling frolicks> Well I have been to
the Druid Inn. You do get about a bit don't you, Rat
(meant in the nicest possible way :). Anywhere else in the UK
that we may have crossed paths at different times? ;p

Wowsers. Never been in it, but I drove past it everytime I drove to/from
Aber. This is too weird.

Oh, and Rat? Aberystwyth coastline and motorbikes? Nice!

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Message no. 8
From: Richard Gaywood r.gaywood@**********.com
Subject: Games in bits of the world [was Re: Southeastern VA regional questions]
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:51:33 -0000
Strago wrote:
> > <SNIP>
> > Here's a fun game: would anyone else on this board (who doesn't already
> > know) like to guess how you pronounce Aberystwyth?
> >
>
> Ah-bur-steeth?
> <SNIP>
> Do I win?

You win, but only because no-one else entered.
It's actually Abb-urr-ust-withe, fact-fans.

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Message no. 9
From: abortion_engine abortion_engine@*******.com
Subject: Games in bits of the world [was Re: Southeastern VA regional questions]
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 14:23:28 -0500
From: "Richard Gaywood" <r.gaywood@**********.com>
> Strago wrote:
> > > <SNIP>
> > > Here's a fun game: would anyone else on this board (who doesn't
already
> > > know) like to guess how you pronounce Aberystwyth?
> > >
> >
> > Ah-bur-steeth?
> > <SNIP>
> > Do I win?
>
> You win, but only because no-one else entered.
> It's actually Abb-urr-ust-withe, fact-fans.

And, as long as we've got a Welshman cornered, how would *you* pronounce
Ysrthgrathe? It's about as close to Welsh as any other language I can think
of. I mean, c'mon, cyw? Dwr? Braf? <grin>
Message no. 10
From: Richard Gaywood r.gaywood@**********.com
Subject: Games in bits of the world [was Re: Southeastern VA regional questions]
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 21:44:56 -0000
abortion_engine wrote:
> And, as long as we've got a Welshman cornered, how would *you* pronounce
> Ysrthgrathe? It's about as close to Welsh as any other language I can
think
> of. I mean, c'mon, cyw? Dwr? Braf? <grin>

Umm... err.. I'm no expert at this - never got around to learning Welsh to
any level.

But.. I reckon it's <stick toungue out of corner of mouth>
something like Urr-sruth-grahthe.

Well, that's my two nuyen worth, anyway.


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Message no. 11
From: Mark A Shieh SHODAN+@***.EDU
Subject: Games in bits of the world [was Re: Southeastern VA regional questions]
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:01:25 -0500 (EST)
Excerpts from ShadowRN: 30-Mar-100 Re: Games in bits of the wo.. by
"Richard Gaywood"@******
> abortion_engine wrote:
> > And, as long as we've got a Welshman cornered, how would *you* pronounce
> > Ysrthgrathe? It's about as close to Welsh as any other language I can
> think
> > of. I mean, c'mon, cyw? Dwr? Braf? <grin>
>
> Umm... err.. I'm no expert at this - never got around to learning Welsh to
> any level.
>
> But.. I reckon it's <stick toungue out of corner of mouth>
> something like Urr-sruth-grahthe.

Not to be picky here, but is "grahthe" a one-syllable thingy that
sounds a lot like "grath", a two-syllable thing like "grah-the", or
something else?

Mark
Message no. 12
From: Richard Gaywood r.gaywood@**********.com
Subject: Games in bits of the world [was Re: Southeastern VA regional questions]
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 22:09:48 -0000
Mark A Shieh wrote:
> > Ysrthgrathe?
> [snip]
> > But.. I reckon it's <stick toungue out of corner of mouth>
> > something like Urr-sruth-grahthe.
>
> Not to be picky here, but is "grahthe" a one-syllable thingy that
> sounds a lot like "grath", a two-syllable thing like "grah-the",
or
> something else?

He he he. In being this picky, I think you're grossly over-valuing my poor
langauge skills.

But I was thinking of "grath" as one syllable. For what it's worth ;o)

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Message no. 13
From: Rat winterhawk@*********.net
Subject: Games in bits of the world [was Re: Southeastern VA regional questions]
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:05:15 -0800
> From: Wavy Davy <ctysmd@***.leeds.ac.uk>

>
> > <joins in reeling> Yeah, no kidding! You haven't by chance been
> > to the Druid Inn or the Cross Foxes Pub, have ya?
>
> <third party joins in with reeling frolicks> Well I have been to
> the Druid Inn. You do get about a bit don't you, Rat
> (meant in the nicest possible way :). Anywhere else in the UK
> that we may have crossed paths at different times? ;p
>

<grin> Don't suppose you were in London on the day of Princess
Di's funeral, were you? If you were, I'll be truly boggled. :)

ObSR: I wonder if anybody rewrote "Candle in the Wind" *again*
when Dunkelzahn died? :) "It seems to me you lived your life
like a lizard in the wind..." Oh, never mind!

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Message no. 14
From: Rat winterhawk@*********.net
Subject: Games in bits of the world [was Re: Southeastern VA regional questions]
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:09:59 -0800
From: "Richard Gaywood" <r.gaywood@**********.com>
>
> Strago wrote:
> > > <SNIP>
> > > Here's a fun game: would anyone else on this board (who doesn't already
> > > know) like to guess how you pronounce Aberystwyth?
> > >
> >
> > Ah-bur-steeth?
> > <SNIP>
> > Do I win?
>
> You win, but only because no-one else entered.
> It's actually Abb-urr-ust-withe, fact-fans.


Yeah, but that was just the *preliminary* round! If you *really*
want one that's fun, check out:

http://www.magespace.net/aberpics/aber.html

I'll give a free no-prize to the first brave soul who can
pronounce the one in the top picture!

Well, actually I won't, 'cause *I* can't! :)

--Rat

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Message no. 15
From: Richard Gaywood r.gaywood@**********.com
Subject: Games in bits of the world [was Re: Southeastern VA regional questions]
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 22:18:35 -0000
Rat wrote:
> Yeah, but that was just the *preliminary* round! If you *really*
> want one that's fun, check out:
>
> http://www.magespace.net/aberpics/aber.html
>
> I'll give a free no-prize to the first brave soul who can
> pronounce the one in the top picture!
>
> Well, actually I won't, 'cause *I* can't! :)

He he he. That's the longest placename in Wales, and it's pretty evil. My
girlfriend can pronounce it; not sure I could, though.

BTW, you're correct, that is the entrance to the Old College. Funnily
enough, I recall an afternoon spent through that door, up four floors and
into the computer room, doing ShadowRN all afternoon on a crappy 14" monitor
that gave me a headache. Sigh. Happy times.

Oh, and I can also confirm those roads really are narrow, having experienced
an interesting few seconds during a head-on car crash in the Elan Valley
near there.

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